Ussama Makdisi

Ussama Makdisi is professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World.

A Lost Future for the Middle East

Religious pluralism was a possibility after the Ottoman Empire. European colonialism changed that.
Ussama Makdisi
October 22, 2024